Friday, April 24, 2009

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Can Have Healthy Pregnancy with diabetes?

Having a healthy pregnancy with diabetes can really be a dream with many, but it is possible and the purpose of this article is to establish the claim. Pregnancy period, otherwise known as gestational period, covers the growth of baby in the uterus from fertilization until birth. It also includes the conception and formulation of a plan or idea in the mind about the pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is defined as that discovered when you are pregnant. Getting pregnant by ignoring the gestational diabetes signs implies many additional increased risks like miscarriage, stillbirth and birth defects with your baby. However, if you pay constant care before conception, you can avoid many risks. Normal pregnancy reduces insulin sensitivity because of diabetogenic effects of placental hormones. This effect is maximal in the late second and third trimesters.

There are many cases of women with pre-acquired diabetes. With such condition, the mother should be cautious against the complications that may arise when she gets pregnant. This will reduce the risk of birth defects for babies. Also it will be safe for you if you are decided to control your pre-acquired diabetes as First Aid action before you get pregnant. With this awareness, you can prevent serious birth defects in the brain and spinal cord. Nowadays, most women of child bearing age can realistically expect motherhood for healthy children with intensive glycemic control.

Bad effects of pregnancy with diabetes:
Being pregnant and diabetic can create problems to the mother and fetus. If you ignore the control of blood glucose in general, it may lead to menstrual problems and difficulty in conceiving. If you are pregnant, that condition itself worsens your diabetic control and causes certain complications to develop in your body. Maternal diabetes is also hazardous for the fetus with increased risk and major congenital malformations.

Plan yourself for healthy pregnancy:
To prevent abortion and congenital malformations of diabetic mothers, awareness program and proper education should begin before conception. There are no specific contraceptive methods, but you can have treatment for your gestational diabetes. Whenever you achieve a stable sugar control, the contraception can be discounted and hence, you are safe to get pregnant. Gestational diabetes risks for the mother and the baby should be avoided at any cost. For this simple reason, you need not go a long way worrying with anxiety for healthy pregnancy.

Tips to have healthy pregnancy with diabetes:
• Careful blood glucose monitoring and proper treatment in advance can ensure you a healthy baby when you conceive.
• If you are taking oral medications, you need a switch over to insulin before and after pregnancy.
• If you are already a declared diabetic, you need to consult your doctor and plan accordingly for healthy pregnancy.
• Careful planning and preconception care alone can allow the diabetic woman to have a problem free and healthy pregnancy.
• Having gestational diabetes diet plan with multivitamin and folic acid can ensure you a healthy pregnancy.

If you control your diabetes before you get pregnant, you can make yourself fit for a healthy pregnancy. If you want to be hundred percent safe in this regard, you should know the description of foods to eat AND foods to control diabetes for a healthy pregnancy.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How to conceive a baby boy – 3 Useful Tips

Many people are seeking answers for 'How to conceive a baby boy?' and 'Is it possible to conceive a baby boy as desired?'. The sure answer for the second question is 'yes'. You may suspect and feel reluctant to accept this answer at the outset. Also, you might have come across some suggestions that you can try to augment your probability of success in having a baby boy. Here, you have a few useful tips to boost the odds of conceiving a baby boy to more than 80% success. The hidden secret lies with the diet you eat, the time you choose to conceive and selected sexual positions with your spouse.

Choose specific diet to conceive:
It is from recent studies that women who consume foods for 2,000 calories or more daily without missing breakfast have better chance to conceive a baby boy. Just having breakfast daily and increased calories of foods cannot suffice the need for the purpose. You will need a pretty low PH or alkaline foods and omit acidic foods. Also, you should eat foods like strawberries, bananas, figs, apricots, and anything else with higher natural salt content and potassium content. Baked potato skins are also very good for you if you want to conceive a boy.

Choose right time to conceive:
The date of ovulation has to be considered to avoid conceiving a baby girl when you aim for a baby boy. It is noteworthy that male sperm can't live longer because of their genetic nature. Since they are weaker than the female sperm, you must be ready to conceive on the day you ovulate or the day next so that these weak guys are not held waiting for the egg to fertilize. If you are even early by a day or two, the chance is low for success to conceive a baby boy. In this regard, you should confirm your ovulation date by saliva test or urine test.

Have right sexual positions to conceive:
There are two types of sperm chromosomes called X (Girl) and Y (Boy). The former are stronger but slowly moving while the later are weaker but fast moving. If you want to conceive a boy, the Y sperm should be helped to reach the egg first. If the Y sperm are placed in the vaginal track closer to the eggs, they have relatively more chance to perform their role to conceive a boy by surpassing the X sperm.

Many of you may not believe this concept about the fertilizing characteristics of the sperm. Indeed, the predicting baby gender is determined by the way by which the boy sperm reach and fertilizes the egg first. Some sperm are faster in movement and others have low speed in flow on the way towards the ovum. This advantage and weakness of the sperm determine the sex of baby. Here, you have the best known positions for your choice to conceive a boy.

1.The best position is rear entry in which the woman should lie on her stomach with the knees in sitting position.
2.Alternatively, the woman shall be sitting up with the knees bent on the edge of the bed.
3.The woman shall bend up and hold her knees for allowing proper penetration.
4.The woman shall place her legs at the man's shoulders to ensure deep penetration.
5.The woman shall bend up like a bow laid on pillows for sharp and deep penetration.

These are just the probable could of the tips you can use to increase chances to conceive a boy baby. Also you should know first how to get sure pregnancy and then chances to conceive a girl baby.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Pregnancy Healthy Eating-Do You Care for it?

It is most important that you pay special care for pregnancy healthy eating, because knowing what to eat during pregnancy can add better things for you. You are eating healthy diet means your baby is also getting healthy during your pregnancy. You have to manage your pregnancy by eating healthy diet, and if necessary nutritious diet with multivitamin or prenatal vitamin as prescribed by your doctor. If you are already having a constant care for pregnancy and healthy eating, you need to make only a few changes in your menu to compensate your needs. It is more important to care what you are eating than how much. What you eat right before and during your pregnancy can affect the health of your growing baby.

No doubt, you need nutrition during pregnancy to keep you and your baby healthy. But, it doesn’t mean that you are to double the intake quantity of food. An extra calorie may be sufficient to add with your usual intake of food. Care should be given to get the required amount of vitamins, proteins and other minerals. Low calorie diets will affect the baby leading to mental retardation. According to research report of American Dietetic Association, a woman with early signs of pregnancy needs only an extra 300 calories per day more than what she was taking before pregnancy.

Fruits and vegetables:
Fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins and minerals are the best natural foods for eating during pregnancy. Vitamin C is needed to build healthy gums and tissues. It also helps in healing wounds. Fruits like Strawberries, melons, oranges, papaya and tomatoes are good for energy. Eating leafy greens, cabbage and broccoli as much as you can with broken servings is good for bones. Vitamin A can be had from dark green vegetables as supplement nutrients. You should also consume fruits and vegetables with calcium and fiber content which can be had from dried beans, peas, nuts and seeds as salads. You may have these as side dish every time whenever you have meal.

Grains and Cereals:
You have to mind the pregnancy healthy eating guidelines. Eating whole grain products and cereals with iron source and fiber is always good. Cereals rich in folic acid build healthy tissues and prevent most of the birth defects.

Dairy products:
Calcium is essential which can be had from dairy products like cheese and yogurt with low-fat or non-fat. Also, you may have direct milk with low-fat or non-fat content. Dairy products are rich sources of Vitamin A, B and D. You know Vitamin A builds your body and fights against infection by increasing immunity power for the growing baby.

Meat and fish:When you are carrying your growing baby, you have to consume 50 to 80 grams of protein every day. Protein is rich in cooked lean meat, fish or poultry. Protein is also rich in eggs, dried beans and peas which are available everywhere. But, it is not good to take protein contents in increased size daily.

Take care to have some mild walking exercise along with your pregnancy healthy eating. Also, you should know first the causes and effects of nausea and the do’s and dont’s to prevent your pregnancy morning sickness.

Morning Sickness during Pregnancy-Do's and Dont's to Prevent

How to prevent Morning sickness during pregnancy is a mystery common in pregnant women. Nausea occurs as one of the early signs of pregnancy. In most cases this discomfort improves when you enter the second trimester. For some women, morning sickness and nausea might last longer, even for the entire nine months. During nausea, you feel tired and feel hatred of eating or even smelling certain things. Sometimes, you may have continuous vomiting making you dehydrated.

So, pregnancy morning sickness is the worst effect experienced by most of the women. Although it is quite normal and common as one of the early pregnancy symptoms, it might become distressful with some women. The nausea starts from 4th to 6th week and lasts up to 4th month. The nausea is felt mostly in the morning by almost all women with pregnancy, and it is felt in the evening hours by a very few. To the worst, it may be lasting throughout the day to some women in pregnancy.

You may be eager to know if there are morning sickness cures to overcome this distressful condition during pregnancy period. Morning sickness subsides by itself with the down fall of pregnancy hormones during second trimester. Anyhow, by keeping in mind a few things, you can get rid of morning sickness after pregnancy to certain extent.
Preventing Morning Sickness during Pregnancy
To help stop morning sickness, you need to keep a few things in mind which are listed below:

10 tips of Do’s:
# Make it a point to take only small meals with spaced intervals. Stuffing your stomach itself may be a burden to make you feel an imbalance in your normal condition with indigestion problems.
# Take a variety of healthy as well as balanced diet to get nutrients for energy and stamina
in a natural way.
# Keep some light snacks by your bedside to avoid empty stomach for a long time.
# Eat what you feel relishing to your taste and make yourself satisfied.
# Drink more water to compensate your dehydrated condition when you have excessive
vomiting.
# Eat more food items with carbohydrates, preferably baked potato and fresh vegetables.
Take naps during day whenever you feel to have, but not closely after eating.
# Go to bed earlier and get up slowly in the morning without tension.
# Have free size clothes to wear and avoid tightening the belt around the abdomen.
# Have good ventilation for free air when at home and enjoy relaxed state of mind.

5 tips of Dont’s:
# Don’t eat uncooked or under cooked meats or fish. They may harm your body in all ways.
# Don’t eat fish varieties like shark, swordfish, or tilefish which compose mercury contents.
# Don’t take too much spicy, oily and greasy foods during pregnancy.
# Don’t take drugs of any kind to your choice, unless and otherwise your doctor prescribes.
# Don’t try to eat anything that you suspect to increase your nausea.

To prevent morning sickness with ease, you should know first the causes and effects of nausea and choose pregnancy healthy diet compulsorily.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Are You in Pregnancy Morning Sickness?

Pregnancy morning sickness occurs in most of the women of new mom's to be. While the name would imply that this ailment occurs only in the morning, many women experience it at any time of the day. In most of the cases, sickness occurs between the 4th and 6th week of pregnancy and lasts until the 14th to 16th week. Some women will experience light or severe ailment with vomiting during pregnancy.

Nausea during pregnancy is experienced by most of the pregnant women. From the very name you should not mistake it as sickness during morning alone, but may occur at any time of the day or night. A few women suffer from this illness almost all the days when they were pregnant. Since the problem is at its peak during the early hours of the day, it is recognized as morning sickness. In most cases, it doesn’t affect the women or the child baby. However, severe morning sickness will lead to dehydration and weight loss which need proper attention and medical care.

Symptoms: Physical symptoms of pregnancy and morning sickness can include Nausea, Loss of appetite and Vomiting. The other psychological symptoms are depression and anxiety due to physical ailment.

Causes: The actual cause remains mystery to many women, but there are theories to make a link with hormonal changes and fluctuations in blood pressure. The overall combination of rapid changes in your body occurring due to nausea and vomiting pregnancy contributes a major role in your queasiness. With the steep rise in the hormones like hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin ) and estrogen, you start feeling the effects of nausea. When the level of these hormones begins to decline in your system, you get relief from the problem.

Effects of Nausea: There is the increased sense of taste and smell when you are pregnant. The great taste and liking for certain things you had when pregnant will now make you feel to say `No No. Please keep off them`. Some women prone to morning sickness during pregnancy begin to hate even the normal breakfast or bread. If the condition is at its worst, you have the highest level of estrogen and feel to rush for bathroom or wash basin for uncontrolled vomiting. Such a condition will make you feel depression.

Remedies for morning sickness: Unfortunately, there is no specific and standard measure to relieve the pregnancy morning sickness. It doesn’t mean that there is no solution for this problem, but indeed there are some tips to lessen your nausea. The relief measure is decided to suit the degree of ailment and the body conditions.

To get rid of the ailments totally, you should necessarily know the pregnancy healthy diet and then try the tips of do’s and dont’s to prevent pregnancy sickness.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

How to Conceive a Baby Girl – 3 Useful Tips

Many of you may be eager to know how to conceive a baby girl. Can you conceive a baby to your desire in gender? The answer for this question is ‘yes’. You will not easily believe this answer with doubts aroused within you. But there are some reliable and influencing factors to substantiate the answer. It’s becoming known far and wide that there are natural ways of baby gender predictors helping you before you plan to conceive. Here, you have three main things you can try at home in a natural way to help enhancing the odds to conceive a baby girl with some probability. You may have some other ideas striking to your knowledge to help you in the current issue. Still, you may have a choice to try simple measures to improve your chances to conceive a baby girl.

Fix selected diet to eat:
You need to eat foods that are rich in magnesium and avoid potassium as well as sodium contents to have a baby girl. The needed salts are rich in apple, potatoes, spinach, black beans, cereals, and all green vegetables. Though you can have natural supplement of magnesium, the good effect will be with direct fresh vegetables. You need to significantly raise your acidity and increase high PH to kill off male sperm without harming to females.

Fix specific time to conceive:
A basic knowledge about the life time of the chromosomes is needed for having a baby girl to your choice. Since the boy chromosomes are weaker than those of the girl, they cannot have long survival. On the other hand, the girl chromosomes are stronger and can live longer up to three to four days than those of the boy. So, you should have intercourse three days before you ovulate and stop until after ovulation stops. In the interim period, the male sperm will die off due to weakness and shorter life span. The good news for you is that the female sperm having longer life can have the chance to fertilize the egg to conceive a baby girl. Even if you avoid intercourse for three days after ovulation since the egg may emerge, your chance to conceive a female baby is less in these days with an increased chance for boy sperm.

Follow specific sexual positions:
You know well, boys are capable of producing two types of chromosomes called X and Y. The X or girl chromosomes are very strong, while the Y or boy chromosomes are very weak. Also, the Y sperm are faster than X in movement. Here is a battle in between X and Y sperm to reach first and penetrate the egg for fertilization. Following the ejaculation, the boy sperm are ready to overtake the girl sperm and fertilize the egg to conceive a boy. This overtaking should be stopped when you are trying to conceive a baby girl.

Since the male sperm are long living, you can use shallow penetration in which the female sperm can easily make a long trip. Whatever be the position you prefer, the woman should lie or sit with flexible style so that there cannot be a deep penetration facilitating a short trip for Y sperm to fertilize the egg with a boy baby. The penetration shall be soft and sophisticated to ensure conceiving a baby girl.

These are just the probable could of the tips you can use to increase your chances to conceive a girl baby. Also you should know first how to get pregnant first and then chances to conceive a boy.